September 2016

September 1st Christian turned 10. Here is a special gift from us, light up light saber chopsticks!

He wanted to miss all of school, but I compromised and just took him out for brunch at Kneaders.

He brought treats back for his classmates.

That night he got another cake--Dairy Queen ice cream cake!


Here's Skit Skat looking fluffy on the 3rd.


Being silly at Bath & Body Works on the 5th.

On the 8th we had a quick trip to the store and I thought the kids looked extra cute!

And they still love to try on Halloween masks.

On the 11th Joy did a pirate birthday party for Brandt.

Cutest cake, decorations and games!

Christian was in a Chinese program at school and he wanted a special shirt for it. We ordered this adult small one on Amazon and he totally rocked it!

Things got silly again on the 17th when the kids had some fun with a borrowed hand truck.

Here's Bud on the 18th...

recreating a bit Benedict Cumberbatch did on the Graham Norton Show (British chat show we watch online) about his fans saying he looked like an otter:

 

Meme time

On the 29th I took the kids (on the train because I didn't want to drive that far) to the Cornbelly's JetBlue fall party.

Christian loved the bags of sand with gems and fossils that he got to sift through.

Overall, it was so packed that we hardly got any of the goodies or to do the activities. Our gift cards weren't good for the dinner location we found that actually had food left. And we stood in line forever for cinnamon almonds and didn't get any. If we go again next year, we'll have to go far earlier!

Buddy still likes to cook when he feels like it, so he made his own cookie recipe on the 30th.

August 2016

On August 1st Christian helped me clean out our front planting bed and put in more soil. Still need to get something planted there!

This doggie loves to be a snuggle.

Took Bud to Sonic for a slush and some evil treats known as "Cinnasnacks." They are like the love child of a Cinnabon and a pizza roll!

And our bed continues to be a jungle gym to this day.

On the 2nd Bud found a bunch of snails including this teeny tiny guy.

I found a picture on Facebook which I had been looking for to include in a blog book from a few years ago. Neighborhood Easter hunt!

On the 5th I went with Dad, Eric, Joy and Jordan to Tucanos and then to an Escape Room. We had given this to dad for Christmas or his birthday and we were finally getting around to it!

There was only the option of the toughest room they had--only one team had ever won it and it was on their second try. This one, if you won you got fee t-shirts, hence the name we chose. We got close, but did not escape! It was fun anyway.

On the 6th we got this crazy hail.

August 13th we had a church party which was a luau. A new family in the ward, the Alofipo's, are from Samoa and Hawaii and they roasted a whole pig in the ground and invited their friends who had performed at the Polynesian Cultural center to put on a show for us!

 

On the 14th we got to meet baby Lex! He's such a cutie and looks so much like his brother.

On the 16th we met up with mom & dad and Sarah's family at Lagoon.

August 18th was any size container day so the kids got ginormous pitchers of Slurpee.

August 19th found us at the condo again. Christian had fun with the baby legos!

The next day, the adults competed in completing a Sudoku puzzle!

We left a bit early so we could stop by the Davis County fair. Our favorite exhibits: the petting zoo, rabbits and chickens, did not disappoint.

August 24th was the first day of school. Faith's health was still not good during the summer, but she started feeling better a few weeks before and had done really well at camp. Very encouraging and we were excited for her to start 9th grade!

Bud's so big he's going into 4th!

My besties and I took advantage of our newfound freedom by going to breakfast at Aunt Annie's Diner. Approximately 20 billion calories were consumed.

Found this on my phone--the reason I love The Royals tv show:

and I love this quote:

On August 28th we celebrated Christian's birthday a little early with the family. Faith made this AMAZING cake:

We started at Petersons'

and then over to Braeggers' where we had a double party with Tina for her 50th birthday.

Christian was there dressed as the Grim Reaper to surprise her and wish her happy birthday!

Inside were lots of Star Wars decorations for Bud. Tammy outdid herself with this party!